Chuck Berry’s 60th birthday concert and the drama surrounding it were captured in Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll, one of the greatest music films of all time. But Berry’s life has never been covered onscreen. That changes with Chuck Berry, a film directed and produced by Jon Brewer, which will …
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Recently unsealed documents from a Manhattan courthouse reveal new details associated with the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier in jail on sex trafficking charges. According to the 74 pages of documents, which stem from a 2016 defamation lawsuit Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre filed against Epstein’s former girlfriend and …
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President Trump is heading to El Paso on Wednesday, accepting an invitation from the city’s mayor that comes over the objections of several prominent local officials. Republican Mayor Dee Margo on Monday said the invitation is part of what he feels is his “obligation” to meet with the president in …
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Alan Paul and Andy Aledort’s new book, Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan — out August 13th — chronicles the life of the legendary guitarist in his own words, and those of his closest friends, collaborators, and admirers. The following excerpt, an abridged version of a chapter …
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If you woke up this morning and thought, “Gee, it’s been a while since my favorite Depression-era gangster featured prominently in the 2019 news cycle,” then we are pleased to inform you that it is indeed your lucky day. The body of John Dillinger, the gangster and bank robber who …
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After touring boats, irrigations systems, and the other Made-in-America wares displayed on the White House lawn Monday, President Trump took to a podium to give a longwinded speech riddled with lies about job creation, trade, and the manufacturing industry. He then asked for questions about the issues he had just …
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On Tuesday, a thread from Salty, a newsletter and digital publication aimed at women, transgender, gender non-conforming, and non-binary people, started circulating on Twitter. The thread called out Instagram for banning six ads featuring transgender and non-binary people of color. Instagram’s reasoning: the ads in question promoted escorting services, they …
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Robert Finley, the 65-year-old singer who became the breakout star of Dan Auerbach’s 2018 Easy Eye Sound Revue tour, brought down the house with a performance of his track “Get It While You Can” on America’s Got Talent Tuesday. Finley’s performance was preceded by a brief biography that touched on …
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Sturgill Simpson is set to appear on a panel at the 2019 Comic-Con in San Diego. The Grammy-winning songwriter will discuss his involvement in the new Japanese anime film Sound & Fury, a project that mixes American rock music with the colorful Japanese animation style. Slated for Saturday, July 20th, …
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Marijuana used to have a subversive reputation. But a new study from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the University of Miami found that the majority of people smoke weed for a very boring reason: they just want to get some sleep. Published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, …
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